About - Thomas Bugnyar

Thomas Bugnyar (b. 1971, Eisenstadt) received his PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Vienna. After spending some time in the USA (Erwin Schrödinger fellow at University of Vermont) and in the UK (lecturer at University of St Andrews), he returned to Vienna for the prestigious START programme of the Austrian Science Fund. He is now professor for Cognitive Ethology and part of the newly founded Department of Cognitive Biology at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on social behaviour and complex cognition in non-human animals, ranging from social learning, perspective taking and ‘theory of mind’ to forms of cooperation and conflict management. He has published over 40 journal articles and is member of the editorial board of Animal Behaviour , the scientific committee of the Ethological Society and the EU-program ‘Atomium Culture’.